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ST_ExteriorRing
Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This function returns a linestring corresponding to the exterior ring of a polygon geometry.
create.select(stExteriorRing(
stGeomFromText("""
POLYGON (
(-3 -3, 3 -3, 3 3, -3 3, -3 -3),
(-2 -2, 2 -2, 2 2, -2 2, -2 -2),
(-1 -1, 1 -1, 1 1, -1 1, -1 -1)
)
""")
)).fetch();
The result being, for example
+--------------------------------------------+ | ST_ExteriorRing | +--------------------------------------------+ | LINESTRING (-3 -3, 3 -3, 3 3, -3 3, -3 -3) | +--------------------------------------------+
Or, visually:
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
stExteriorRing(geometry)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake
st_exteriorring(geometry)
Oracle
st_polygon(geometry).st_exteriorring()
SQLServer
geometry.STExteriorRing()
ASE, Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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